Fake News Data Profile

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Analysis started	2023-09-09 13:26:46.028255
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1st row	Scalia‚Äôs death comes just a month before the court‚Äôs biggest abortion case in years
2nd row	Rachel Dolezal's brother: She's 'making up more lies'
3rd row	What A Hillary Presidency Would Bring
4th row	Hillary Endorsed Donald Trump for President According to Wikileaks
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1st row	The¬†unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia comes less than a month before the Supreme Court hears its biggest abortion case in a decade. On March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstadt, a challenge to a Texas law that has closed about half of the state's abortion clinics since 2013. If the law is allowed to stand, abortion rights supporters say it would close all but about 10 of Texas's abortion clinics. Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue say this case could be the most important decision on abortion in 25 years. Scalia has been a staunch opponent of abortion rights, and critical of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1972, which established a constitutional right to abortion.¬†"You want a right to abortion? There's nothing in the Constitution about that," Scalia¬†said in a 2011 interview. Scalia was a near-certain vote in favor of upholding the Texas law. Without him, things get a bit more complicated. But the key thing to know is this: Without Scalia, its very hard to see a world where the Supreme Court affirms the Texas law's constitutionality. Here's why: There are almost certainly four votes against the law from the Court's liberal wing. And it's possible there are five votes, as justice Anthony Kennedy has been a¬†swing vote on abortion cases. A 5-3 decision would be the best case for abortion rights supporters, as it would repeal the Texas law and prevent other states from passing similar restrictions. The best case outcome for the abortion rights opponents, meanwhile, is a 4-4 tie. In that case, Supreme Court rules say that the decision of the circuit court is left in place without setting any constitutional precedent. In that case, this would let the Texas law stand, since the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the restriction. That would be far from an ideal outcome for the law's challengers and would leave abortion access greatly restricted in Texas. But it also wouldn't give other states the clear signal that these types of restrictions are constitutional ‚Äî something that abortion opponents would very much like to see. The case,¬†Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, was brought by Texas abortion providers challenging Texas's House Bill 2, which the legislature enacted into law in July 2013. That bill has two main restrictions, both of which the clinics challenge in this case. One was a requirement that all abortion clinics have admitting privileges at local hospitals. That piece of HB2 went into effect in September 2013, and forced¬†14 clinics that could not obtain admitting privileges to close. HB2 also requires abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers, essentially mini emergency rooms that can handle complex medical situations. Ambulatory surgical centers, for example, must have wide enough hallways to fit a gurney and larger operating rooms than abortion clinics typically use. Abortion clinics in Texas have said that upgrading to these new standards would cost upward of¬†$1 million. They have argued that the new requirements are unnecessary, as abortions tend to have a very low complication risk. Approximately¬†0.05 percent of first-trimester abortions have complications that require hospital care. Texas clinics have said because these upgrades are so costly, many facilities would close. Their lawyers previous stated that about 900,000 of Texas's 4.5 million reproductive-age women would live more than 150 miles from a clinic if HB2 stands. The Supreme Court has, in previous rulings, articulated standards for judging the constitutionality of abortion restrictions like these. And one key standard the justices have settled on is whether a restriction places an "undue burden" on women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has previously defined an undue burden as a law with the "purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus." The Supreme Court has previously ruled that laws requiring women to notify their spouses of their abortion, for example, are an undue burden, as it could make it impossible for some women to access the procedure. The Texas law requires abortion clinics to become mini emergency rooms The Texas clinics argue that HB2 ought to fit the "undue burden" definition: Because it would force most Texas abortion clinics to close, it would become the type of "substantial obstacle" that the Supreme Court has previously found to be unconstitutional. If the Texas law stands, the clinics argue, "every woman in Texas would have to live under a legal regime that fails to respect her equal citizenship status and would force her to grapple with unnecessary and substantial obstacles as a condition of exercising her protected liberty." Texas has defended its new restrictions as not placing a substantial burden on those seeking abortions. As evidence, it points to the fact that the admitting privileges portion of the law has been in effect for more than a year, forcing 14 clinics to close. The clinics, they pointed out, presented no evidence of women who wanted to obtain an abortion not being able to do so. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals used that argument to¬†uphold the law in October. "Demand for abortion services in Texas may decrease in the future, as it has done nationally over the past several years," the Fifth Circuit ruled. "The record lacks evidence that the previous closures ... have caused women to be turned away from clinics. Without any evidence ... plaintiffs do not appear to ... show that the ambulatory surgical center provision will result in insufficient clinic capacity." The Fifth Circuit continued that "the evidence does not indicate, without specificity, that by requiring all abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers, the overall costs of accessing an abortion provider will likely increase." Texas has also challenged the clinics' argument that the new restrictions are unnecessary because abortion is generally a safe procedure, saying it's not the place of the courts to second-guess the possible outcome of the law. Abortion rights supporters have pointed to¬†new research that suggests the state was wrong on this. According to¬†the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, major Texas cities have seen significant increases in wait times at abortion clinics. In Dallas, where the average wait time for an abortion was five days prior to HB2, women may now wait as long as 20 days.
2nd row	(CNN) Ezra Dolezal would love to see his sister, Rachel, take a DNA test to prove whose version of the truth about her racial identity is the right one. But he doesn't think she will. And she didn't back down when it comes how she sees herself, even after her parents shared childhood photos of a young Rachel Dolezal -- her pale complexion and straight blond hair in contrast to the woman with darker skin and dark curly hair who appeared on NBC. "My life has been one of survival," Dolezal told Lauer. "And the decisions that I have made along the way have been to survive and to carry forward in my journey and life continuum." "My life has been one of survival," Dolezal told Lauer. "And the decisions that I have made along the way have been to survive and to carry forward in my journey and life continuum." Matt Lauer interviews Dolezal on the "Today" show on Tuesday, June 16. Dolezal revealed that she started identifying as black around age 5, when she would draw self-portraits with a brown crayon. She told Lauer she "takes exception" to the contention that she tried to deceive people. Dolezal poses for a picture with prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. Dolezal's mother said on Friday, June 12, that her daughter "has not explained to us why she is doing what she's doing and being dishonest and deceptive with her identity." Dolezal poses for a picture with prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. Dolezal's mother said on Friday, June 12, that her daughter "has not explained to us why she is doing what she's doing and being dishonest and deceptive with her identity." Another family photo shows Dolezal as a teenager. Her mother told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that after she and her husband adopted four African-American children, Dolezal began to "disguise herself." Dolezal brushed off the controversy surrounding her racial identity as part of a family fight over alleged abuse, the Spokesman-Review reported. A family photo shows Dolezal's family at her wedding reception in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 21, 2000. Her family is racially mixed; four of her adopted siblings are black. She and her husband, Kevin, are standing between her parents. Her grandparents are at right and her adopted siblings are in the front row. A family photo shows Dolezal's family at her wedding reception in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 21, 2000. Her family is racially mixed; four of her adopted siblings are black. She and her husband, Kevin, are standing between her parents. Her grandparents are at right and her adopted siblings are in the front row. Dolezal's birth certificate shows that she was born to Lawrence Dolezal and Ruthanne Schertel. Her public racial identity came under scrutiny on Thursday, June 11, in an interview with a reporter from CNN affiliate KXLY Rachel Dolezal, 37, was the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian. She is seen as a teenager at left in an old family photo and in a more recent picture from Eastern Washington University, where she teaches classes related to African-American culture. Rachel Dolezal, 37, was the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian. She is seen as a teenager at left in an old family photo and in a more recent picture from Eastern Washington University, where she teaches classes related to African-American culture. For the family, one comment stung especially hard. "I haven't had a DNA test," Dolezal said. "There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents." Larry and Ruthanne are the Montana couple who helped drive this story, telling reporters that Rachel is their estranged daughter. Ezra Dolezal is himself biracial and one of four children adopted by the Dolezals -- unlike Rachel, his older sister by 15 years, he says. "I guarantee that she is not going to take a DNA test to prove that (Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal) are not her parents," Ezra Dolezal told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday. "Because they are, and she doesn't want to be caught going back on her story again." Over the years, several reports have come out identifying Rachel Dolezal as transracial, multiracial or black. She hasn't corrected them -- in part because, it seems, she feels connected with the African-American experience, a link she claims began as early as age 5, when she drew self-portraits in brown instead of peach crayon and with black, curly hair. This self-assessment, though, has bothered some -- including African-Americans who feel that Dolezal advanced as an activist by misrepresenting herself and by claiming personal injustices that weren't legitimate coming from a woman who could decide any day to present herself as white again. She has had her defenders, too, with some pointing to the good she's done as an activist and saying she shouldn't be faulted for her tight bond with the black community. 'She's too nervous' to admit the truth, brother says For all the Internet outrage, though, the ones most directly affected by all this are the Dolezals. And they couldn't be further apart. It has been years since Rachel Dolezal talked with her parents. They've been on opposing sides of one custody battle, which ended with Rachel taking in one of Larry and Ruthanne's four adopted children as her own. And Rachel, who attended historically black Howard University and until very recently had taught classes on African-American culture at Eastern Washington University, has claimed she felt her connection with the black experience was stifled when she was growing up. "I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it," she told NBC. "I kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity." Yet her parents have challenged her assertions, including that she identified with African-Americans as a youngster or was held back in any way. They've challenged her integrity and even questioned her mental state. Ezra Dolezal backed his adopted parents Wednesday, while ripping what he called a web of lies -- a web that, he said, is growing bigger by the day. "I think ... she's too nervous to just admit that she's not been telling the truth," he said. "(That) is why she keeps on making up more and more lies to help fit the story as it goes."
3rd row	Behind the headlines - conspiracies, cover-ups, ancient mysteries and more. Real news and perspectives that you won't find in the mainstream media. Browse: Home / What A Hillary Presidency Would Bring Essential Reading Untold Truths About the Planned War on Iran By wmw_admin on April 9, 2013 Dynamite documentary: Press TV talks to former White House insider Gwenyth Todd about the push for war with Iran. She has subsequently escaped to Australia to avoid FBI prosecution. Essential viewing Inside 9/11: Hijacking the Air Defense By wmw_admin on August 13, 2011 Why did U.S. air defense fail so spectacularly on 9/11? As this video explains, it was likely due to one man and he wasn‚Äôt sitting in a Afghan mountain cave Who Are The Illuminati? By wmw_admin on April 24, 2004 Conspiracy theory is now an accepted turn of phrase but sometimes one hears the expression, sometimes whispered rather than spoken. ‚ÄúThe Illuminati‚Äù. 9/11 and Zion: What Was Israel‚Äôs Role? By Nick Kollerstrom on August 31, 2012 When Netanyahu said the very next day, ‚ÄòThis is very good for Israel‚Äù, he wasn‚Äôt just blurting out something indiscreet, he was publicly congratulating the various agents who had worked so hard The Essene Gospel of Peace I By wmw_admin on April 26, 2007 Based on texts found in the Vatican library and the Royal Library of the Hapsburg‚Äôs and dated to the first century AD, the following is considered by some to be the real words of Christ The Anglo-Saxon Mission Part II By wmw_admin on March 1, 2010 Former City of London insider reveals that the depopulation program would begin with a planned war between Israel and Iran. More importantly, he goes onto to describe how we can derail their plans for global dominance London Beheading Hoax Confirmed? By wmw_admin on May 24, 2013 Was the London beheading a hoax? After Sandy Hook anything is possible and the authors present a very convincing case that it was. Judge for yourself
4th row	Hillary Endorsed Donald Trump for President According to Wikileaks ‚ÄúI endorse Donald Trump‚Äù- I am Hillary Clinton and I Approve this messageary Here‚Äôs Gary Franchi as he reports that that before running against billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump for the presidency, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience at a private, paid speech she wanted to see more successful businessmen and women run for office because they can‚Äôt be bought. AMAZINGLY, SHE SAID DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT!!!
5th row	RT October 26, 2016 Around 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty says the US must come clean about the civilian toll of its fight against Islamic State. Amnesty suspects that US Central Command (CENTCOM), which directs coalition airstrikes in Syria, ‚Äúmay have‚Ä¶ carried out unlawful attacks‚Äù in Syria, failing to take necessary measures to prevent civilian killings. ‚ÄúWe fear the US-led coalition is significantly underestimating the harm caused to civilians in its operations in Syria,‚Äù said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International‚Äôs Beirut regional office. ‚ÄúIt‚Äôs high time the US authorities came clean about the full extent of the civilian damage caused by coalition attacks in Syria. Independent and impartial investigations must be carried out into any potential violations of international humanitarian law and the findings should be made public.‚Äù Amnesty investigated evidence, including eyewitness accounts, reports by human rights organizations and the media, photographs and video footage as well as satellite imagery, related to 11 suspected coalition attacks in Syria. The group estimates that the attacks have claimed as many as 300 civilian lives. So far none of these deaths has been acknowledged by CENTCOM. The report published on Wednesday added that the total civilian death toll from coalition action ‚Äúcould be as high as 600 or more than 1,000‚Äù since the operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) started in Syria in 2014. One of the strikes investigated by Amnesty took place in the early hours of December 7, 2015. The attacks hit two houses in the village of Ayn al-Khan, near al-Hawl in al-Hasakah governorate in northern Syria, killing 40 civilians, including 19 children, and injuring at least 30 others, the report said. A d v e r t i s e m e n t According to an eyewitness account, an initial night strike was followed by a second attack from a helicopter gunship, which hit first responders trying to dig out survivors. ‚ÄúAt this point I had a two-month-old baby boy in my arms whom I had rescued. The hit caused me to fall and drop him‚Ä¶ I fell into the hole made by the air strike. That was what saved me‚Ä¶ My mother, aunt, wife and children ‚Äì a daughter who was four years old and a son who was two and a half were all killed. The woman and her son who I‚Äôd rescued were killed. Everyone but me was killed,‚Äù the survivor said. The strike is believed to have targeted IS fighters. But local Kurdish militia reportedly warned the coalition that there were civilians in the area. Amnesty said CENTCOM‚Äôs failure to acknowledge civilian deaths in Syria, as well as the poor record of investigating such incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq, poses grave concerns over the toll which the civilian population of Mosul, Iraq is likely to face from the ongoing operation to take the city from IS. The US-led coalition is providing air support for the offensive. ‚ÄúGiven the likely increase in air strikes by the US-led Coalition as part of the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, it is even more pressing that CENTCOM be fully transparent about the impact of their military actions on civilians. And it is crucial that they adhere scrupulously to international humanitarian law, including by taking all feasible precautions to spare civilians and to minimize harm to civilian homes and infrastructure,‚Äù said Maalouf. A similar operation to capture Manbij, Syria, which is far smaller than Mosul, killed more than 200 civilians, Amnesty estimated. Last week, Amnesty International blasted Russia for civilian deaths in Aleppo. The Syrian city is divided between government forces and various armed groups, including the Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front. Russia says that the militants use civilians as human shields and would not allow them to leave the city, derailing several attempts by Russia to open humanitarian corridors out of the city. This article was posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 6:20 am Share this article

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o	1687696	5.8%
i	1680831	5.7%
n	1646641	5.6%
s	1459064	5.0%
r	1399119	4.8%
h	1042692	3.6%
Other values (166)	8993571	30.8%

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Value	Count	Frequency (%)
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Space Separator	4691719	16.0%
Uppercase Letter	1093027	3.7%
Other Punctuation	630279	2.2%
Decimal Number	173441	0.6%
Open Punctuation	164510	0.6%
Control	156700	0.5%
Dash Punctuation	56207	0.2%
Math Symbol	19755	0.1%
Close Punctuation	16267	0.1%
Other values (7)	6835	< 0.1%

Most frequent character per category

Lowercase Letter

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
e	2727930	12.3%
t	2039036	9.2%
a	1872652	8.4%
o	1687696	7.6%
i	1680831	7.6%
n	1646641	7.4%
s	1459064	6.6%
r	1399119	6.3%
h	1042692	4.7%
l	944008	4.2%
Other values (46)	5732542	25.8%

Uppercase Letter

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
Ä	148148	13.6%
T	102953	9.4%
S	83642	7.7%
I	75958	6.9%
C	75188	6.9%
A	72018	6.6%
B	45894	4.2%
R	43942	4.0%
P	41921	3.8%
H	40986	3.7%
Other values (31)	362377	33.2%

Other Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
,	252464	40.1%
.	243801	38.7%
"	39404	6.3%
'	33554	5.3%
:	17698	2.8%
†	11312	1.8%
?	9140	1.5%
/	6021	1.0%
;	4053	0.6%
!	3102	0.5%
Other values (11)	9730	1.5%

Math Symbol

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
¬	14906	75.5%
√	1203	6.1%
=	748	3.8%
≠	672	3.4%
>	504	2.6%
+	448	2.3%
<	413	2.1%
\|	223	1.1%
∫	147	0.7%
≈	145	0.7%
Other values (8)	346	1.8%

Decimal Number

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
0	43016	24.8%
1	34168	19.7%
2	28840	16.6%
5	11211	6.5%
6	11064	6.4%
9	10881	6.3%
3	9988	5.8%
4	9450	5.4%
8	7708	4.4%
7	7115	4.1%

Open Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
‚	148534	90.3%
(	12703	7.7%
[	3177	1.9%
{	96	0.1%

Currency Symbol

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
$	3828	80.2%
¢	885	18.5%
£	49	1.0%
¥	10	0.2%

Other Symbol

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
©	425	78.1%
°	72	13.2%
®	29	5.3%
™	18	3.3%

Modifier Symbol

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
¨	324	71.4%
´	99	21.8%
`	23	5.1%
^	8	1.8%

Dash Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
-	56144	99.9%
–	36	0.1%
—	27	< 0.1%

Close Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
)	12991	79.9%
]	3180	19.5%
}	96	0.6%

Control

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	156699	> 99.9%
	1	< 0.1%

Other Letter

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
ª	180	89.6%
º	21	10.4%

Space Separator

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	4691719	100.0%

Connector Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
_	833	100.0%

Private Use

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	27	100.0%

Final Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
»	4	100.0%

Most occurring scripts

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
Latin	23325370	79.8%
Common	5915487	20.2%
Greek	67	< 0.1%
Unknown	27	< 0.1%

Most frequent character per script

Latin

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
e	2727930	11.7%
t	2039036	8.7%
a	1872652	8.0%
o	1687696	7.2%
i	1680831	7.2%
n	1646641	7.1%
s	1459064	6.3%
r	1399119	6.0%
h	1042692	4.5%
l	944008	4.0%
Other values (86)	6825701	29.3%

Common

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	4691719	79.3%
,	252464	4.3%
.	243801	4.1%
	156699	2.6%
‚	148534	2.5%
-	56144	0.9%
0	43016	0.7%
"	39404	0.7%
1	34168	0.6%
'	33554	0.6%
Other values (67)	215984	3.7%

Greek

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
π	56	83.6%
Ω	11	16.4%

Unknown

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	27	100.0%

Most occurring blocks

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
ASCII	28762203	98.4%
None	316369	1.1%
Punctuation	159932	0.5%
Math Operators	2402	< 0.1%
PUA	27	< 0.1%
Letterlike Symbols	18	< 0.1%

Most frequent character per block

ASCII

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	4691719	16.3%
e	2727930	9.5%
t	2039036	7.1%
a	1872652	6.5%
o	1687696	5.9%
i	1680831	5.8%
n	1646641	5.7%
s	1459064	5.1%
r	1399119	4.9%
h	1042692	3.6%
Other values (87)	8514823	29.6%

Punctuation

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
‚	148534	92.9%
†	11312	7.1%
–	36	< 0.1%
—	27	< 0.1%
•	20	< 0.1%
‡	3	< 0.1%

None

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
Ä	148148	46.8%
ô	56613	17.9%
ú	33916	10.7%
ù	33431	10.6%
¬	14906	4.7%
î	11668	3.7%
ì	6531	2.1%
¶	2965	0.9%
ò	2910	0.9%
í	923	0.3%
Other values (51)	4358	1.4%

Math Operators

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
√	1203	50.1%
≠	672	28.0%
∫	147	6.1%
≈	145	6.0%
∑	72	3.0%
∞	56	2.3%
≥	54	2.2%
∂	23	1.0%
∏	20	0.8%
≤	10	0.4%

PUA

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
	27	100.0%

Letterlike Symbols

Value	Count	Frequency (%)
™	18	100.0%

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0	10	Scalia‚Äôs death comes just a month before the court‚Äôs biggest abortion case in years	The¬†unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia comes less than a month before the Supreme Court hears its biggest abortion case in a decade.\n\nOn March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstadt, a challenge to a Texas law that has closed about half of the state's abortion clinics since 2013.\n\nIf the law is allowed to stand, abortion rights supporters say it would close all but about 10 of Texas's abortion clinics. Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue say this case could be the most important decision on abortion in 25 years.\n\nScalia has been a staunch opponent of abortion rights, and critical of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1972, which established a constitutional right to abortion.¬†"You want a right to abortion? There's nothing in the Constitution about that," Scalia¬†said in a 2011 interview.\n\nScalia was a near-certain vote in favor of upholding the Texas law. Without him, things get a bit more complicated. But the key thing to know is this: Without Scalia, its very hard to see a world where the Supreme Court affirms the Texas law's constitutionality.\n\nHere's why: There are almost certainly four votes against the law from the Court's liberal wing. And it's possible there are five votes, as justice Anthony Kennedy has been a¬†swing vote on abortion cases. A 5-3 decision would be the best case for abortion rights supporters, as it would repeal the Texas law and prevent other states from passing similar restrictions.\n\nThe best case outcome for the abortion rights opponents, meanwhile, is a 4-4 tie. In that case, Supreme Court rules say that the decision of the circuit court is left in place without setting any constitutional precedent.\n\nIn that case, this would let the Texas law stand, since the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the restriction. That would be far from an ideal outcome for the law's challengers and would leave abortion access greatly restricted in Texas.\n\nBut it also wouldn't give other states the clear signal that these types of restrictions are constitutional ‚Äî something that abortion opponents would very much like to see.\n\nThe case,¬†Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, was brought by Texas abortion providers challenging Texas's House Bill 2, which the legislature enacted into law in July 2013.\n\nThat bill has two main restrictions, both of which the clinics challenge in this case. One was a requirement that all abortion clinics have admitting privileges at local hospitals. That piece of HB2 went into effect in September 2013, and forced¬†14 clinics that could not obtain admitting privileges to close.\n\nHB2 also requires abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers, essentially mini emergency rooms that can handle complex medical situations. Ambulatory surgical centers, for example, must have wide enough hallways to fit a gurney and larger operating rooms than abortion clinics typically use.\n\nAbortion clinics in Texas have said that upgrading to these new standards would cost upward of¬†$1 million. They have argued that the new requirements are unnecessary, as abortions tend to have a very low complication risk. Approximately¬†0.05 percent of first-trimester abortions have complications that require hospital care.\n\nTexas clinics have said because these upgrades are so costly, many facilities would close. Their lawyers previous stated that about 900,000 of Texas's 4.5 million reproductive-age women would live more than 150 miles from a clinic if HB2 stands.\n\nThe Supreme Court has, in previous rulings, articulated standards for judging the constitutionality of abortion restrictions like these. And one key standard the justices have settled on is whether a restriction places an "undue burden" on women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.\n\nThe Supreme Court has previously defined an undue burden as a law with the "purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus." The Supreme Court has previously ruled that laws requiring women to notify their spouses of their abortion, for example, are an undue burden, as it could make it impossible for some women to access the procedure.\n\nThe Texas law requires abortion clinics to become mini emergency rooms\n\nThe Texas clinics argue that HB2 ought to fit the "undue burden" definition: Because it would force most Texas abortion clinics to close, it would become the type of "substantial obstacle" that the Supreme Court has previously found to be unconstitutional.\n\nIf the Texas law stands, the clinics argue, "every woman in Texas would have to live under a legal regime that fails to respect her equal citizenship status and would force her to grapple with unnecessary and substantial obstacles as a condition of exercising her protected liberty."\n\nTexas has defended its new restrictions as not placing a substantial burden on those seeking abortions. As evidence, it points to the fact that the admitting privileges portion of the law has been in effect for more than a year, forcing 14 clinics to close. The clinics, they pointed out, presented no evidence of women who wanted to obtain an abortion not being able to do so.\n\nThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals used that argument to¬†uphold the law in October.\n\n"Demand for abortion services in Texas may decrease in the future, as it has done nationally over the past several years," the Fifth Circuit ruled. "The record lacks evidence that the previous closures ... have caused women to be turned away from clinics. Without any evidence ... plaintiffs do not appear to ... show that the ambulatory surgical center provision will result in insufficient clinic capacity."\n\nThe Fifth Circuit continued that "the evidence does not indicate, without specificity, that by requiring all abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers, the overall costs of accessing an abortion provider will likely increase."\n\nTexas has also challenged the clinics' argument that the new restrictions are unnecessary because abortion is generally a safe procedure, saying it's not the place of the courts to second-guess the possible outcome of the law.\n\nAbortion rights supporters have pointed to¬†new research that suggests the state was wrong on this. According to¬†the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, major Texas cities have seen significant increases in wait times at abortion clinics. In Dallas, where the average wait time for an abortion was five days prior to HB2, women may now wait as long as 20 days.
1	100	Rachel Dolezal's brother: She's 'making up more lies'	(CNN) Ezra Dolezal would love to see his sister, Rachel, take a DNA test to prove whose version of the truth about her racial identity is the right one.\n\nBut he doesn't think she will.\n\nAnd she didn't back down when it comes how she sees herself, even after her parents shared childhood photos of a young Rachel Dolezal -- her pale complexion and straight blond hair in contrast to the woman with darker skin and dark curly hair who appeared on NBC.\n\n"My life has been one of survival," Dolezal told Lauer. "And the decisions that I have made along the way have been to survive and to carry forward in my journey and life continuum."\n\n"My life has been one of survival," Dolezal told Lauer. "And the decisions that I have made along the way have been to survive and to carry forward in my journey and life continuum."\n\nMatt Lauer interviews Dolezal on the "Today" show on Tuesday, June 16. Dolezal revealed that she started identifying as black around age 5, when she would draw self-portraits with a brown crayon. She told Lauer she "takes exception" to the contention that she tried to deceive people.\n\nDolezal poses for a picture with prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. Dolezal's mother said on Friday, June 12, that her daughter "has not explained to us why she is doing what she's doing and being dishonest and deceptive with her identity."\n\nDolezal poses for a picture with prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. Dolezal's mother said on Friday, June 12, that her daughter "has not explained to us why she is doing what she's doing and being dishonest and deceptive with her identity."\n\nAnother family photo shows Dolezal as a teenager. Her mother told the Spokane Spokesman-Review that after she and her husband adopted four African-American children, Dolezal began to "disguise herself." Dolezal brushed off the controversy surrounding her racial identity as part of a family fight over alleged abuse, the Spokesman-Review reported.\n\nA family photo shows Dolezal's family at her wedding reception in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 21, 2000. Her family is racially mixed; four of her adopted siblings are black. She and her husband, Kevin, are standing between her parents. Her grandparents are at right and her adopted siblings are in the front row.\n\nA family photo shows Dolezal's family at her wedding reception in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 21, 2000. Her family is racially mixed; four of her adopted siblings are black. She and her husband, Kevin, are standing between her parents. Her grandparents are at right and her adopted siblings are in the front row.\n\nDolezal's birth certificate shows that she was born to Lawrence Dolezal and Ruthanne Schertel. Her public racial identity came under scrutiny on Thursday, June 11, in an interview with a reporter from CNN affiliate KXLY\n\nRachel Dolezal, 37, was the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian. She is seen as a teenager at left in an old family photo and in a more recent picture from Eastern Washington University, where she teaches classes related to African-American culture.\n\nRachel Dolezal, 37, was the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American. But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian. She is seen as a teenager at left in an old family photo and in a more recent picture from Eastern Washington University, where she teaches classes related to African-American culture.\n\nFor the family, one comment stung especially hard. "I haven't had a DNA test," Dolezal said. "There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents."\n\nLarry and Ruthanne are the Montana couple who helped drive this story, telling reporters that Rachel is their estranged daughter. Ezra Dolezal is himself biracial and one of four children adopted by the Dolezals -- unlike Rachel, his older sister by 15 years, he says.\n\n"I guarantee that she is not going to take a DNA test to prove that (Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal) are not her parents," Ezra Dolezal told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday. "Because they are, and she doesn't want to be caught going back on her story again."\n\nOver the years, several reports have come out identifying Rachel Dolezal as transracial, multiracial or black. She hasn't corrected them -- in part because, it seems, she feels connected with the African-American experience, a link she claims began as early as age 5, when she drew self-portraits in brown instead of peach crayon and with black, curly hair.\n\nThis self-assessment, though, has bothered some -- including African-Americans who feel that Dolezal advanced as an activist by misrepresenting herself and by claiming personal injustices that weren't legitimate coming from a woman who could decide any day to present herself as white again.\n\nShe has had her defenders, too, with some pointing to the good she's done as an activist and saying she shouldn't be faulted for her tight bond with the black community.\n\n'She's too nervous' to admit the truth, brother says\n\nFor all the Internet outrage, though, the ones most directly affected by all this are the Dolezals. And they couldn't be further apart.\n\nIt has been years since Rachel Dolezal talked with her parents. They've been on opposing sides of one custody battle, which ended with Rachel taking in one of Larry and Ruthanne's four adopted children as her own. And Rachel, who attended historically black Howard University and until very recently had taught classes on African-American culture at Eastern Washington University, has claimed she felt her connection with the black experience was stifled when she was growing up.\n\n"I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it," she told NBC. "I kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity."\n\nYet her parents have challenged her assertions, including that she identified with African-Americans as a youngster or was held back in any way. They've challenged her integrity and even questioned her mental state.\n\nEzra Dolezal backed his adopted parents Wednesday, while ripping what he called a web of lies -- a web that, he said, is growing bigger by the day.\n\n"I think ... she's too nervous to just admit that she's not been telling the truth," he said. "(That) is why she keeps on making up more and more lies to help fit the story as it goes."
2	10001	What A Hillary Presidency Would Bring	Behind the headlines - conspiracies, cover-ups, ancient mysteries and more. Real news and perspectives that you won't find in the mainstream media. Browse: Home / What A Hillary Presidency Would Bring Essential Reading Untold Truths About the Planned War on Iran By wmw_admin on April 9, 2013 \nDynamite documentary: Press TV talks to former White House insider Gwenyth Todd about the push for war with Iran. She has subsequently escaped to Australia to avoid FBI prosecution. Essential viewing Inside 9/11: Hijacking the Air Defense By wmw_admin on August 13, 2011 \nWhy did U.S. air defense fail so spectacularly on 9/11? As this video explains, it was likely due to one man and he wasn‚Äôt sitting in a Afghan mountain cave Who Are The Illuminati? By wmw_admin on April 24, 2004 \nConspiracy theory is now an accepted turn of phrase but sometimes one hears the expression, sometimes whispered rather than spoken. ‚ÄúThe Illuminati‚Äù. 9/11 and Zion: What Was Israel‚Äôs Role? By Nick Kollerstrom on August 31, 2012 \nWhen Netanyahu said the very next day, ‚ÄòThis is very good for Israel‚Äù, he wasn‚Äôt just blurting out something indiscreet, he was publicly congratulating the various agents who had worked so hard The Essene Gospel of Peace I By wmw_admin on April 26, 2007 \nBased on texts found in the Vatican library and the Royal Library of the Hapsburg‚Äôs and dated to the first century AD, the following is considered by some to be the real words of Christ The Anglo-Saxon Mission Part II By wmw_admin on March 1, 2010 \nFormer City of London insider reveals that the depopulation program would begin with a planned war between Israel and Iran. More importantly, he goes onto to describe how we can derail their plans for global dominance London Beheading Hoax Confirmed? By wmw_admin on May 24, 2013 \nWas the London beheading a hoax? After Sandy Hook anything is possible and the authors present a very convincing case that it was. Judge for yourself
3	10004	Hillary Endorsed Donald Trump for President According to Wikileaks	Hillary Endorsed Donald Trump for President According to Wikileaks ‚ÄúI endorse Donald Trump‚Äù- I am Hillary Clinton and I Approve this messageary \nHere‚Äôs Gary Franchi as he reports that that before running against billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump for the presidency, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience at a private, paid speech she wanted to see more successful businessmen and women run for office because they can‚Äôt be bought. \nAMAZINGLY, SHE SAID DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT!!!
4	10006	US-led coalition killed 300 Syrian civilians in 11 probed strikes ‚Äì Amnesty	RT October 26, 2016 \nAround 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty says the US must come clean about the civilian toll of its fight against Islamic State. \nAmnesty suspects that US Central Command (CENTCOM), which directs coalition airstrikes in Syria, ‚Äúmay have‚Ä¶ carried out unlawful attacks‚Äù in Syria, failing to take necessary measures to prevent civilian killings. \n‚ÄúWe fear the US-led coalition is significantly underestimating the harm caused to civilians in its operations in Syria,‚Äù said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International‚Äôs Beirut regional office. \n‚ÄúIt‚Äôs high time the US authorities came clean about the full extent of the civilian damage caused by coalition attacks in Syria. Independent and impartial investigations must be carried out into any potential violations of international humanitarian law and the findings should be made public.‚Äù \nAmnesty investigated evidence, including eyewitness accounts, reports by human rights organizations and the media, photographs and video footage as well as satellite imagery, related to 11 suspected coalition attacks in Syria. The group estimates that the attacks have claimed as many as 300 civilian lives. So far none of these deaths has been acknowledged by CENTCOM. \nThe report published on Wednesday added that the total civilian death toll from coalition action ‚Äúcould be as high as 600 or more than 1,000‚Äù since the operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) started in Syria in 2014. \nOne of the strikes investigated by Amnesty took place in the early hours of December 7, 2015. The attacks hit two houses in the village of Ayn al-Khan, near al-Hawl in al-Hasakah governorate in northern Syria, killing 40 civilians, including 19 children, and injuring at least 30 others, the report said. A d v e r t i s e m e n t \nAccording to an eyewitness account, an initial night strike was followed by a second attack from a helicopter gunship, which hit first responders trying to dig out survivors. \n‚ÄúAt this point I had a two-month-old baby boy in my arms whom I had rescued. The hit caused me to fall and drop him‚Ä¶ I fell into the hole made by the air strike. That was what saved me‚Ä¶ My mother, aunt, wife and children ‚Äì a daughter who was four years old and a son who was two and a half were all killed. The woman and her son who I‚Äôd rescued were killed. Everyone but me was killed,‚Äù the survivor said. \nThe strike is believed to have targeted IS fighters. But local Kurdish militia reportedly warned the coalition that there were civilians in the area. \nAmnesty said CENTCOM‚Äôs failure to acknowledge civilian deaths in Syria, as well as the poor record of investigating such incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq, poses grave concerns over the toll which the civilian population of Mosul, Iraq is likely to face from the ongoing operation to take the city from IS. The US-led coalition is providing air support for the offensive. \n‚ÄúGiven the likely increase in air strikes by the US-led Coalition as part of the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, it is even more pressing that CENTCOM be fully transparent about the impact of their military actions on civilians. And it is crucial that they adhere scrupulously to international humanitarian law, including by taking all feasible precautions to spare civilians and to minimize harm to civilian homes and infrastructure,‚Äù said Maalouf. \nA similar operation to capture Manbij, Syria, which is far smaller than Mosul, killed more than 200 civilians, Amnesty estimated. \nLast week, Amnesty International blasted Russia for civilian deaths in Aleppo. The Syrian city is divided between government forces and various armed groups, including the Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front. Russia says that the militants use civilians as human shields and would not allow them to leave the city, derailing several attempts by Russia to open humanitarian corridors out of the city. This article was posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 6:20 am Share this article
5	10008	Israeli Minister sparks Scandal after showing Satisfaction at Italy's Earthquakes	\nTwo earthquakes, which struck Italy this week, were ‚Äúretribution‚Äù for the country‚Äôs support of the UNESCO resolution disregarding the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, Israeli Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoob Kara said.\n‚ÄúI‚Äôm sure that the earthquake happened because of the UNESCO decision,‚Äù Kara, a member of the ruling Likud Party, wrote in a memo, Ynetnews website reported.\nIronically, the Israeli politician was on a state visit to the Vatican when the quakes hit central Italy on Wednesday, killing one and injuring 10 people.\nEarlier the same day, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), passed a resolution criticizing Israel for its handling of the holy site in Jerusalem ‚Äì called Temple Mount by Jews, and Haram al-Sharif by Muslims.\nThe document was adopted after heated debate over its wording, and particularly the Arabic names used in the document. Italy was among the nations voting in favor of the resolution.\nIsrael blasted UNESCO and its Arab members for trying to undermine Jewish connections to the holy site.\nKara arrived in the Vatican in a fruitless effort to avert the resolution, but still managed to have a small chat with the leader of the Catholic Church.\nAccording to Kara, Pope Francis ‚Äústrongly disagreed‚Äù with the resolution.\n‚ÄúHe (the Pope) even said publicly that the holy land is connected to the Nation of Israel,‚Äù the deputy minister stressed.\nAs for surviving the natural disaster, the Israeli politician said that ‚Äúgoing through the earthquake was not the most comfortable of experiences, but we trusted that the Holy See would keep us safe.‚Äù\nSource \n
6	10009	Putin: Use of 'mythical' Russian military threat a ‚Äòprofitable business'	vladimir putin , Valdai , sochi , RBTH Daily Russian President Vladimir Putin. Source: Kremlin.ru \nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said that the use of what he described as a "mythical" Russian military threat is "a profitable business." \nThe Russian leader made this statement on Oct. 27 at a session of the Valdai international discussion club in Sochi. \n"Fabricated, mythical threats like the so-called Russian military threat are constantly repeated. This is, indeed, a profitable business to seek new budgets in countries and press allies to fit the interests of one superpower, expand NATO and bring the alliance‚Äôs infrastructure, combat units and military hardware to our borders," said Putin. \n"The truth is, however, that Russia is not going to attack anyone, that‚Äôs ridiculous," he continued.
7	1001	The Daily 202: Bill Clinton‚Äôs argument with Black Lives Matter protesters is 2016‚Äôs Sister Souljah Moment	Bill Clinton spent 13 minutes yesterday forcefully responding to Black Lives Matter activists who were heckling him. Speaking in an overwhelmingly African American neighborhood of Philadelphia, the city that will host this summer‚Äôs Democratic National Convention, the former president offered a spirited defense of his record on civil rights, his signature crime bill and his wife.\n\nOne of the protesters held a sign that declared, "Black youth are not super predators.‚Äù That‚Äôs a reference to when Hillary Clinton spoke in 1996 of ‚Äúthe kinds of kids that are called ‚Äòsuper-predators‚Äô‚Äù and said ‚Äúwe have to bring them to heel.‚Äù\n\nClinton pointed to the signs. ‚ÄúThis is what‚Äôs the matter,‚Äù he said. ‚ÄúI don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the street to murder other African American children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn't! ‚Ä¶ You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter! Tell the truth! You are defending the people who caused young people to go out and take guns.‚Äù\n\nThe 69-year-old¬†went on an extended riff about why he and his wife are the ones who have really fought to make black lives matter:\n\n"Because of that [crime]¬†bill we had a 25-year low in crime, a 30-year low in the murder rate, and because of that and the background-check law, a 46-year low in deaths of lives by gun violence,‚Äù he said. ‚ÄúAnd who do you think those lives were that mattered? Whose lives were saved that mattered?"\n\nBill noted that Hillary, unlike Bernie Sanders, did not vote for the crime bill. "She was spending her time trying to get health care for poor kids,‚Äù he said. ‚ÄúWho were they? And their lives matter!‚Äù\n\nHe also highlighted the Democratic front-runner's¬†work for the Children's Defense Fund as a young attorney in Alabama and her work to stop the spread of HIV in Africa as secretary of state. "I'll tell you another story about a place where black lives matter: Africa," he said.\n\n-- In a year when the drama has mostly been on the Republican side, it made for great political theater. And it gave Bill Clinton another unforgettable ‚ÄúSister Souljah Moment.‚Äù In May 1992, the hip-hop artist suggested that killing white cops might not be so bad in the wake of the Los Angeles riots. Speaking at a convention organized by Jesse Jackson‚Äôs Rainbow Coalition, the then-governor of Arkansas ripped into her. "If you took the words ‚Äòwhite‚Äô and ‚Äòblack‚Äô and reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech,‚Äù he said. ‚ÄúWe have an obligation, all of us, to call attention to prejudice whenever we see it.‚Äù (C-SPAN‚Äôs archive has the video.)\n\nCalling her out became legendary and helped Clinton pivot from the Democratic nominating contest he was wrapping up, when he needed base voters, to the general election, when he needed independents.¬†Twenty-four years later, we are at a very similar phase in the campaign cycle.\n\n-- Yesterday‚Äôs showdown in Philadelphia quickly became a Rorschach Test. Republicans and liberal activists inclined to dislike WJC called it evidence of him being out of touch and over the hill, while Clinton loyalists said it was the Big Dog at his best. The majority of the crowd of 400 cheered Clinton as he made the protesters his foils.\n\n-- Most¬†mainstream media outlets are¬†covering¬†the comments as another off-message embarrassment for his wife‚Äôs campaign,¬†but¬†let‚Äôs dispense¬†once and for all with the¬†fiction that Bill Clinton does not know what he‚Äôs doing. He knows exactly what he‚Äôs doing.\n\n-- A year ago, most D.C. pundits would have bet that the 2016 general election would pit Hillary versus Jeb, and that Democrats could win by making the campaign about whether voters wanted to give Bill or W. a third term. The Bushes are now long gone. Indeed, both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz criticize the former president to varying degrees. Because the Democratic primaries turned out to be more competitive than anticipated, it‚Äôs been hard for the Clintons to lean on nostalgia for the 1990s. Instead the former president and first lady have been pressed constantly from the left on everything from NAFTA to DOMA.\n\n-- Bill‚Äôs comments about the Black Lives Matter movement suggest that a major pivot in the campaign‚Äôs messaging is on the way.\n\nSmarting from the 2008 defections of African Americans to Barack Obama and recognizing that securing the Democratic nomination this time would depend on running up the score among minority voters, the Clintons set out in the spring of 2015 to inoculate themselves from criticism over the crime bill.¬†‚ÄúWe overshot the mark,‚Äù Bill wrote in the foreword to a book on mass incarceration that came out exactly one year ago. The same month, Hillary gave a speech at Columbia University -- in the wake of the Baltimore riots ‚Äì to promise that criminal justice reform to end sentencing disparities -- which were made worse by her husband‚Äôs bill ‚Äì would be a top priority as president.\n\nLast July, the former president told the NAACP convention that he deeply regretted sending minor criminals to prison ‚Äúfor way too long.‚Äù "I signed a bill that made the problem worse, and I want to admit it," he said.\n\nYesterday, the former president instead blamed congressional Republicans for the parts of the law that have increased mass incarceration. He said then-Sen. Joe Biden told him it could not pass if the tough-on-crime provisions were not added in.\n\nAfter Hillary was confronted this February by a protester about the ‚Äúsuper predator‚Äù comment, she expressed regret. ‚ÄúLooking back, I shouldn‚Äôt have used those words, and I wouldn‚Äôt use them today,‚Äù she said in a statement.\n\n-- Now, as the general election looms, polls show that his wife is badly underperforming with white voters in key battleground states¬†compared to 2008. But Bill‚Äôs strategy is not without risk. Hillary needs high African American turnout to beat Bernie in New York on April 19 and in the Pennsylvania and Maryland primaries on April 26. She also needs to keep the Obama coalition activated through November.\n\nWHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:\n\n-- Bernie Sanders is going to speak at the Vatican next week, John Wagner scoops.¬†He'll leave for¬†Rome immediately after his debate with Clinton on¬†April 14 for¬†a¬†conference on social, economic and environmental issues.\n\n-- Sanders turned his stump speech into comedy on ‚ÄúThe Late Show with Seth Meyers‚Äù: The Vermont senator offered a comedic twist on his disdain for the billionaire class, roasting the ‚Äúone percenters‚Äù alongside Meyers on a segment called ‚ÄúYa Bernt.‚Äù ‚ÄúOne percent -- what do you need all that money for?‚Äù Sanders asked. ‚ÄúIf I didn‚Äôt know any better, I‚Äôd think you were trying to compensate for something.‚Äù As for the big banks, Sanders had this to say: ‚ÄúMy advice is the same advice I give to a couple contemplating an open relationship. It‚Äôs time to break up.‚Äù (John Wagner)\n\n-- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper¬†--¬†who could be a contender in the veepstakes -- hosted Hillary for a fundraiser at his home in Denver last night. Isaac Slade, lead vocalist for The Fray, performed for the 530 attendees.¬†A white noise machine¬†was set up¬†to prevent reporters standing across the street from hearing¬†Hillary's comments in the governor's¬†back yard, according to the local CBS affiliate.\n\n-- Seven in¬†10 Americans now view Trump unfavorably, according to an¬†AP-GfK poll. And the negativity transcends typical ‚Äúvoter blocs‚Äù of age, race¬†and ideology: ‚ÄúIt's an opinion shared by majorities of men and women; young and old; conservatives, moderates and liberals; and whites, Hispanics and blacks ‚Ä¶ a devastatingly broad indictment of [Trump]."¬†The numbers also suggest Trump could be losing his core base:¬†"In the South ‚Äì a region where Trump has decisively won many primary contests ‚Äì close to 70 percent of voters view him unfavorably. And among white voters without a college education, 55 percent have a negative opinion."\n\n-- Not ready to make nice: Ted Cruz refuses¬†to apologize to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for publicly calling him ‚Äúa liar‚Äù last year. ‚ÄúThat ain't gonna happen," the Texas senator said on CNN last night. ‚ÄúAnd if the Washington lobbyists want to see that happen, they can hold their breath a long, long time." So much for trying to win over his Senate colleagues...\n\n-- American Idol is finally¬†over. "Less than two months after the curtain went down on #OscarsSoWhite ‚Äî¬†at least until 2017 ‚Äî¬†it seems that 'American Idol'¬†may be too white as well. Or, more specifically, too deferential to 'generic'¬†white guys, often wielding guitars.¬†This was the consensus on social media after Trent Harmon, a self-described white 'dude from Mississippi,'¬†defeated¬†La‚ÄôPorsha Renae, a black single mother from the same state." (Justin Wm. Moyer)\n\nTRUMP SHAKES UP CAMPAIGN AFTER GETTING CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED IN DELEGATE HUNT:\n\n-- Trump¬†announced yesterday¬†that he is reorganizing his campaign, giving an expanded role to veteran strategist Paul J. Manafort.¬†From¬†Karen¬†Tumulty and Dan Balz:¬†"Manafort, who joined the Trump operation on March 29 as its convention manager, will now have broader responsibilities, and will 'oversee, manage and be responsible for all activities that pertain to Mr. Trump's delegate process and the Cleveland convention,' the campaign said in its announcement.¬†Manafort, working from a new D.C. campaign office, will also be in charge of outreach efforts to members of Congress, the Republican National Committee and think tanks.¬†While the campaign insisted there had been no reduction in the role of embattled campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, it was nonetheless seen that way in Republican circles. Manafort's new portfolio is the operation that could be most crucial to Trump's success in the coming months.¬†Said one GOP strategist who has worked with Manafort, and who declined to be identified: 'I can assure you that Lewandowski should be looking for new employment at this point. He's half wiped out already.'"\n\n‚ÄúTrump is not a dumb man,‚Äù Chris Cillizza writes. ‚ÄúHe didn‚Äôt get to where he is ‚Ä¶ by not grasping when things are slipping away from him ‚Ä¶ [T]he writing appears to be on the wall. Manafort will run things going forward.‚Äù\n\n-- Smart frame --> ‚ÄúThe strategist vs. the showman: Cruz and Trump run very different campaigns,‚Äù by Katie Zezima: ‚ÄúCruz is the disciplined strategist who stays relentlessly on message and runs a by-the-book organization filled with aides and state chairs ‚Ä¶ Trump, by contrast, runs what amounts to a DIY presidential campaign. ‚Ä¶ While the approach has left Trump with little established infrastructure as the race turns into a brawl for delegates, it has also allowed him to be nimble ‚Ä¶ Cruz‚Äôs advance work will be on display this weekend in Colorado, one of five states that leave it up to party members to elect the state‚Äôs 37 delegates to the national convention. Organizers said much of the work has been done with little input from Cruz [headquarters in Houston]. ‚ÄòThere are 50 different states with 50 different speeds,‚Äô said Ken Buck, the senator‚Äôs Colorado state chairman.‚Äù\n\n-- Trump and Cruz face their first test in the Virginia delegate fight¬†tomorrow: ‚ÄúA few hundred Republicans are set to gather in Wytheville, a town of 8,000 in the state's southwest corner, to elect three delegates to the Republican convention,‚Äù the AP reports. ‚ÄúAt first glance, the 9th Congressional District's local convention appears to be fertile ground for Trump ‚Ä¶ But the Cruz campaign is counting on a superior advantage with party insiders, both in Virginia and around the country, to get its preferred delegates elected. Political watchers say these types of party insiders who take the time to register for and attend regional party meetings are more likely to back Cruz. ‚ÄòThe issue is who is going to these convention,‚Äô said Terry Kilgore, a Republican state House delegate ... ‚ÄòThe Cruz people understand the game a little bit better.‚Äô‚Äù\n\n-- Trump leads Cruz by 7 points in California, according to the Field Poll. The front-runner has 39 percent, with Cruz at 32 percent and Kasich at 18 percent. Trump leads in the Bay Area and in the Southern California region outside of Los Angeles. Cruz is preferred over Trump in L.A. proper¬†and among voters in the¬†Central Valley and Sierra mountains,¬†whereas supporters for Kasich are somewhat evenly dispersed across the state.¬†The primary in June will award delegates by congressional districts. Former supporters of Arnold Schwarzenegger prefer Trump: Voters who backed his gubernatorial bid in the recall prefer Trump over Cruz by a three to one margin.\n\n-- ‚ÄúTrump has more than math to worry about in Cleveland,‚Äù by Politico‚Äôs Kyle Cheney: ‚ÄúEvery aspect of the Republican National Convention is a potential tripwire that motivated anti-Trump forces could deploy to waylay the mogul.‚Äù Five tactics Cruz could use to try denying Trump the nomination.\n\n-- Ben Carson proved again to be a terrible Trump surrogate. When asked on CNN¬†if Lewandowski should be running the show after being charged with battery, he responded¬†that ‚Äúa¬†lot of people have been charged with various things ‚Ä¶ You‚Äôve probably been charged with things.‚Äù (The interviewer replied that he has not.)\n\n-- Jeff Sessions, Trump's only supporter in the Senate, said he does not think Trump will pick him as VP. ¬†‚ÄúI think that would not happen," he said. ‚ÄúDon‚Äôt bet any money on me.‚Äù (The Hill)\n\n-- Rudy Giuliani¬†told the New York Post¬†that he will vote for¬†Trump, hitting Cruz for his comments on "New York values."¬†He quipped,¬†‚ÄúI can make fun of New York. But you can‚Äôt!"\n\nMORE ON THE DEMOCRATIC RACE:\n\n--¬†There is widespread and growing concern among Democrats that the Clinton-Sanders rivalry is doing lasting damage to the party and the eventual nominee.¬†"With both candidates launching 10-day sprints ahead of New York‚Äôs April 19 primary, the strain and resentment of a hard-fought and unexpectedly long contest boiled over repeatedly in interviews, speeches and other public appearances,"¬†John Wagner, Abby Phillip and Anne¬†Gearan¬†report. "The senator from Vermont refused to retract his assertion that Clinton is not qualified to be president. Clinton dismissed that claim as 'silly' and countered that Sanders has repeatedly made promises he can‚Äôt keep. ...¬†Sanders continued to blame Clinton for going on the attack and said he has simply been defending himself. And while he expressed regret for the tenor of the campaign over the previous 24 hours and said the acrimony will make it harder for Democrats to unite in the fall, he also said he does not regret his own statements.¬†Clinton had raised questions in a television interview about whether Sanders was prepared to be president, but she repeatedly stopped short of saying he was unqualified."\n\n"President Obama, who has sought to stay out his party‚Äôs nominating contest, weighed in Thursday though a spokesman. Traveling with Obama on Air Force One, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama believes that Clinton 'comes to the race with more experience than any non-vice president' in recent campaign history. Schultz emphasized that Obama feels 'fortunate' that Clinton, whom he defeated in a sometimes nasty battle for the 2008 nomination, served as his secretary of state."\n\n--¬†In an interview with The Post's John Wagner, Sanders stood by his view that Clinton is not qualified ‚Äî but he also pledged to support her if she is the nominee. Three highlights:\n\n-- Congressional Democrats expressed hope that¬†the dust-up over whether Hillary is "qualified"¬†serves as a warning¬†for both candidates to tone things down and keep the party more cohesive than the Republicans.¬†‚ÄúIt‚Äôs really important that everybody take a pause, that everybody calm down,‚Äù said North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. ‚ÄúAt this point in campaigns, people get tired, say things they don‚Äôt mean to, emotions get raw. I think a lot of this will dissipate with a couple good nights‚Äô sleep.‚Äù\n\n-- Why is Bernie¬†throwing the kitchen sink right¬†now? Because he must fundamentally disrupt¬†the race to have any chance of ultimately¬†prevailing. "Sanders still trails Clinton by more than 200 pledged delegates.¬†The math is close to determinative¬†-- and not in his favor. Barring a major cataclysm in the race, Clinton will be the nominee," writes Chris Cillizza.¬†This chart compares Clinton's lead over Sanders to Obama's lead over her at this point in 2008:\n\n-- ‚ÄúPanama financial scandal blows up into Democratic skirmishing over trade,‚Äù by David Nakamura:\n\n-- President Obama took pains to describe Merrick Garland as a unifying figure during a speech at The University of Chicago Law School. Juliet Eilperin and Mike DeBonis: "In a carefully-orchestrated question and answer session with students and faculty ‚Äì including several of Garland‚Äôs family members, the president said failure to confirm his court nominee would make the courts ‚Äújust an extension of our ‚Ä¶ elections and our politics. And that erodes the institutional integrity of the judicial branch.‚Äù\n\nOne questioner pressed Obama about the lack of diversity on the bench and asked why he picked a white man. Obama said ‚Äúthat‚Äôs just not how I‚Äôve approached it":¬†‚ÄúAt no point did I say: ‚ÄòOh, you know what? I need a black lesbian from Skokie in that slot. Can you find me one?‚Äô‚Äù¬†(The Skokie Review notes that this¬†comment sent the suburb north of Chicago trending online...)\n\n-- Minority Whip¬†Richard Durbin said Democrats are "actively considering" legislative¬†maneuvers¬†to push¬†a vote on Garland. "Democrats have thus far refrained from holding up legislation or other Senate business to gain leverage on the court fight.¬†An ultimate step would be to force a floor vote on Garland without committee action ‚Äî a move that would almost certainly fail but would attract attention and put those vulnerable Republican incumbents on the spot. A Democratic leadership aide said that is being considered as a last resort, one that would not be deployed for months."\n\n-- Lindsey Graham said he will meet with Garland, reversing course on his earlier pledge not to.¬†Spokesman Kevin Bishop said it was a ‚Äúcourtesy‚Äù meeting, and the South Carolina senator¬†‚Äúremains opposed to moving forward with the nomination.‚Äù\n\n-- ‚ÄúWhy a Va. senator told a teacher: ‚ÄòYou do not know better than the parents,‚Äô‚Äù by Jenna Portnoy: ‚ÄúSen. Richard H. Black doesn‚Äôt think of himself as squeamish. But the Northern Virginia Republican said he was so stunned by the ‚Äòmoral sewage‚Äô in ‚Ä¶ Toni Morrison‚Äôs ‚ÄòBeloved‚Äô that he did something he professes to never have done [in office]. He abandoned all diplomacy and told a constituent exactly what he thought. Black called the book ‚Äòprofoundly filthy‚Äô and ‚Äòsmut.‚Äô‚Äù The screed is part of an extraordinary email exchange between Black and Loudoun County teacher Jessica Berg, who ‚Äúwrote to Black to protest his vote for a bill that would have required teachers to give parents advance notice if they planned to assign material with sexually explicit content in class [allowing parents to ‚Äòopt out‚Äô their children from reading the offending books]. ‚ÄòIt‚Äôs ridiculous that you are trying to control education when you have no idea what it entails,‚Äô she wrote. ‚ÄòYou do not want free thinkers.‚Äô ‚ÄòI want teachers who won‚Äôt teach such vile things,‚Äô he responded. ‚ÄòYou do not know better than the parents.‚Äô‚Äù (Read the full back and forth here.)\n\nMark Kirk (R-Ill.), desperately trying to hold his seat, is one of only a handful of Republicans who would show off a handwritten note from Obama:\n\nSen.¬†Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) joked about the Senate voting down a legroom amendment in the FAA reauthorization.¬†(Like¬†you,¬†he gets his news from PowerPost):\n\nSen.¬†Richard Burr (R-N.C.) did not look too happy wearing Villanova gear (read about his NCAA wager with Pat Toomey here):\n\nCheck out the scrum surrounding Clinton as she entered the NYC subway (here's the video, too):\n\nKasich ate his way through the Bronx (check out this video mashup from CNN):\n\nSanders ran into this character at Temple University:\n\nClinton allies, including the head of the lead super PAC supporting her,¬†accused Sanders of sexism:\n\nThe Clinton campaign rapid response team noted that Sanders thought she was qualified enough to become Secretary of State:\n\nSome in upstate New York were not so happy to have Cruz:\n\nTwo pictures of Obama back when he was a law professor:\n\nD.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier threw the first pitch at the Nats home opener:\n\nInternet trolls from the fever swamps of the far right and the far left¬†can be so disgusting and nasty, but this may take the cake:\n\n-- Bloomberg, ‚ÄúMcCain-Linked Nonprofit Received $1 Million From Saudi Arabia,‚Äù by Bill Allison: ‚ÄúA nonprofit with ties to Senator John McCain received a $1 million donation from the government of Saudi Arabia in 2014, according to documents filed with the [IRS]. [McCain] has strictly honorary roles with the McCain Institute for International Leadership, a program at Arizona State University, and its fundraising arm, the McCain Institute Foundation, according to his office. But McCain has appeared at fundraising events for the institute and his Senate campaign‚Äôs fundraiser is listed in its tax returns as the contact person for the foundation. Though federal law strictly bans foreign contributions to electoral campaigns, the restriction doesn‚Äôt apply to nonprofits engaged in policy, even those connected to a sitting lawmaker ‚Ä¶ The Saudi donation to the McCain Institute Foundation may be the first congressional instance of that trend coming to light ‚ÄòThe extent of this practice is difficult to gauge, of course,‚Äô Holman said, ‚Äòbecause we only know about it when a nonprofit or foreign government voluntarily reveals that information.‚Äô‚Äù (We missed this story when it came out last week but it's caused a stir in Arizona, where McCain is up for reelection.)\n\nOn the campaign trail: Here's the rundown:\n\nAt the White House: President Obama headlines a DSCC¬†fundraiser¬†in Los Angeles, then travels to San Francisco for DNC and DCCC¬†fundraisers.¬†Vice President Biden travels from Las Vegas to Boulder, Colo., where he speaks at the University of Colorado¬†for the "It's on Us¬†Week of Action"¬†against sexual assault and at an event for Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.). In the evening, Biden departs Denver for Santa Fe, N.M.\n\nOn Capitol Hill:¬†Neither the Senate nor the House are in session.\n\nNEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:\n\n-- A mild start to a chilly weekend. The Capital Weather Gang forecasts: ‚ÄúArguably, today is nicer than anything we‚Äôll see this weekend. Even with wind, it‚Äôs still fairly mild ‚Äî at least comparatively. Clouds and rain showers move in tonight through at least tomorrow morning. We may even see a few snowflakes, but snow of note on Saturday is more of a long shot than sure thing. Hoping to get back outside? Sunday should be calmer and sunnier. Springtime should try to return next week. Whew. Hang on to your hats‚Ä¶‚Äù\n\n-- The Golden State Warriors beat the San Antonio Spurs 112-101 to reach 70 wins.\n\n-- The Capitals lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3.\n\n-- D.C. police are FINALLY cracking down on illegal dirt bike riders, saying swarms of off-road bikes on the city's streets¬†have become a ‚Äúdangerous public menace.‚Äù (Peter Hermann)\n\n-- Gov. Terry McAuliffe¬†(D)¬†abruptly withdrew support for his once-touted economic development strategy, after the Democratic Attorney General said the $35 million ‚ÄúGo Virginia‚Äù program probably violates the state constitution. McAuliffe, who gave a ‚Äúfull throated endorsement‚Äù of the program last summer, will try to amend the legislation, giving lawmakers the option to accept or reject his changes when they return to Richmond this month. (Jenna Portnoy)\n\n-- Donna Edwards raised more than $1 million in the first quarter for her Senate campaign after struggling to get money last year.¬†(Rachel Weiner)\n\n-- Montgomery County police charged two men with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in March. (Clarence Williams)\n\n-- Two students, a chaperone, and a police officer were injured after a police cruiser and school bus crashed in Springfield. (Victoria St. Martin)\n\nWatch a dramatic video of a knife-wielding man shouting ‚Äúkill me!‚Äù at an Ohio police officer more than 40 times after he was shot in the abdomen. The hero cop shows incredible restraint in the face of danger:\n\nPolitical hip hop duo Rebel Diaz confronted Cruz, saying he's not welcome in the neighborhood:\n\nClinton began running her first New York Spanish-language TV ad:\n\nKasich supporters targeted Cruz and his derision for "New York values" in this new spot:\n\nThe Washington Examiner's David Freddoso explained with post-it notes why he doesn't see Trump winning in a general election:\n\nA woman secretly recorded what her doctors said during surgery:\n\nA 12-year-old talked about getting thrown down by a school officer:\n\nThis stuffed animal was filmed making a trip to the Earth's stratosphere:
8	10010	Michael Moore Owes Me $4.99	28, 2016 \| Reviews Michael Moore in New York City's Union Square Barnes & Noble to discuss his book Here Comes Trouble , September 13, 2011 ( David Shankbone / CC BY 3.0 ) Michael Moore‚Äôs ‚ÄúTrumpland‚Äù is a textbook illustration of how the mindset of voting for ‚Äúthe lesser evil‚Äù just results in self-delusion‚Äîand ever more evil. \nM ichael Moore has made some terrific movies in the past, and Where to Invade Next may be the best of them, but I expected Trumpland to be (1) about Trump, (2) funny, (3) honest, (4) at least relatively free of jokes glorifying mass murder. I was wrong on all counts and would like my $4.99 back, Michael. \nMoore‚Äôs new movie is a film of him doing a stand-up comedy show about how wonderfully awesome Hillary Clinton is‚Äîexcept that he mentions Trump a bit at the beginning and he‚Äôs dead serious about Clinton being wonderfully awesome. \nThis film is a text book illustration of why rational arguments for lesser evilist voting do not work. Lesser evilists become self-delusionists. They identify with their lesser evil candidate and delude themselves into adoring the person. Moore is not pushing the ‚ÄúElect her and then hold her accountable‚Äù stuff. He says we have a responsibility to ‚Äúsupport her‚Äù and ‚Äúget behind her,‚Äù and that if after two years‚Äîyes, TWO YEARS‚Äîshe hasn‚Äôt lived up to a platform he‚Äôs fantasized for her, well then, never fear, because he, Michael Moore, will run a joke presidential campaign against her for the next two years (this from a guy who backed restricting the length of election campaigns in one of his better works). \nMoore maintains that virtually all criticism of Hillary Clinton is nonsense. What do we think, he asks, that she asks how many millions of dollars you‚Äôve put into the Clinton Foundation and then she agrees to bomb Yemen for you? Bwahahaha! Pretty funny. Except that Saudi Arabia put over $10 million into the Clinton Foundation, and while she was Secretary of State Boeing put in another $900,000, upon which Hillary Clinton reportedly made it her mission to get the planes sold to Saudi Arabia, despite legal restrictions‚Äîthe planes now dropping U.S.-made bombs on Yemen with U.S. guidance, U.S. refueling mid-air, U.S. protection at the United Nations, and U.S. cover in the form of pop-culture distraction and deception from entertainers like Michael Moore. \nStanding before a giant Air Force missile and enormous photos of Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore claims that substantive criticism of Clinton can consist of only two things, which he dismisses in a flash: her vote for a war on Iraq and her coziness with Wall Street. He says nothing more about what that ‚Äúcoziness‚Äù consists of, and he claims that she‚Äôs more or less apologized and learned her lesson on Iraq. \nWhat? It wasn‚Äôt one vote. It was numerous votes to start the war, fund it, and escalate it. It was the lies to get it going and keep it going. It‚Äôs all the other wars before and since. She says President Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on Syria in 2013. She pushed hard for the overthrow of Qadaffi in 2011. She supported the coup government in Honduras in 2009. She has backed escalation and prolongation of war in Afghanistan. She skillfully promoted the White House justification for the war on Iraq. She does not hesitate to back the use of drones for targeted killing. She has consistently backed the military initiatives of Israel. She was not ashamed to laugh at the killing of Qadaffi. She has not hesitated to warn that she could obliterate Iran. She is eager to antagonize Russia. She helped facilitate a military coup in Ukraine. She has the financial support of the arms makers and many of their foreign customers. She waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all states wise enough to donate to the Clinton Foundation. She supported President Bill Clinton‚Äôs wars and the power of the president to make war without Congress. She has advocated for arming fighters in Syria and for a ‚ÄúNo Fly‚Äù zone. She supported a surge in Iraq even before President Bush did. \nThat‚Äôs just her war problem. What about her banking problem, prison problem, fracking problem, corporate trade problem, corporate healthcare problem, climate change problem, labor problem, Social Security problem, etc.? \nMoore parts company from substantive critique in order to lament unproven rightwing claims that Hillary Clinton has murdered various people. ‚ÄúI hope she did,‚Äù screams Moore. ‚ÄúThat‚Äôs who I want as Commander in Chief!‚Äù Hee hee hee. \nThen Moore shamelessly pushes the myth that Hillary tried to create single-payer, or at least ‚Äúuniversal‚Äù healthcare (whatever that is) in the 1990s. In fact, as I heard Paul Wellstone tell it, single-payer easily won the support of Clinton‚Äôs focus group, but she buried it for her corporate pals and produced the phonebook-size monstrosity that was dead on arrival but reborn in another form years later as Obamacare. She killed single-payer then, has not supported it since, and does not propose it now. (Well, she does admit in private that it‚Äôs the only thing that works, as her husband essentially blurts out in public.) But Moore claims that because we didn‚Äôt create ‚Äúuniversal‚Äù healthcare in the 1990s we all have the blood of millions on our hands, millions whom Hillary would have saved had we let her. \nMoore openly fantasizes: what would it be like if Hillary Clinton is secretly progressive? Remember that Moore and many others did the exact same thing with Obama eight years ago. To prove Clinton‚Äôs progressiveness Moore plays an audio clip of her giving a speech at age 22 in which she does not hint at any position on any issue whatsoever. \nMostly, however, Moore informs us that Hillary Clinton is female. He anticipates ‚Äúthat glorious moment when the other gender has a chance to run this world and kick some righteous ass.‚Äù Now tell me please, dear world, if your ass is kicked by killers working for a female president will you feel better about it? How do you like Moore‚Äôs inclusive comments throughout his performance: ‚ÄúWe‚Äôre all Americans, right?‚Äù \nMoore‚Äôs fantasy is that Clinton will dash off a giant pile of executive orders, just writing Congress out of the government‚Äîexecutive orders doing things like releasing all nonviolent drug offenders from prison immediately (something the real Hillary Clinton would oppose in every way she could). \nBut when he runs for president, Moore says, he‚Äôll give everybody free drugs. \nI‚Äôll tell you the Clinton ad I‚Äôd like to see. She‚Äôs standing over a stove holding an egg. ‚ÄúThis is your brain,‚Äù she says solemnly, cracking it into the pan with a sizzle. ‚ÄúThis is your brain on partisanship.‚Äù \n
9	10013	Freddy Krueger Escapes Shooting ‚Äì Injures Five At Halloween Party	Posted on October 31, 2016 by Edmondo Burr in News , US // 0 Comments A man dressed as Freddy Krueger and an accomplice have shot five people at a large Halloween party in San Antonio, Texas. \nEarly Sunday a man dressed like the fictional serial killer from the film ‚ÄòNightmare on Elm Street‚Äô opened fire on a large crowd after an argument turned violent. \nThe shooters are still at large. \nKens5 reports: \nThe shooting happened on the 2900 block of Aspen Meadow around 5 a.m. on Sunday. One of the residents who did not want to go on camera said he was throwing the party with his housemates and was taking fees at the door. RELATED CONTENT Two Teenagers Dead And 17 Injured In Florida Nightclub Shooting \nHe said several men he did not know showed up to the home and started a fight with his friends. He said the argument escalated into a shooting. \nHe said several people who attended the party captured part of the fight on Snapchat. This later reportedly helped police identify that there were two shooters involved. He said one man had a shotgun and the second man had a hand-gun. \nThere were five people who were injured in the shooting. Police said that one injured woman tried to drive to the hospital, but wrecked her car along the way. Jasmine De Hoyos, who attended the party, said there were more than a hundred people at the home. She said she helped one of the victims who got shot in the arm. \n‚ÄúI kind of applied pressure to the wound to make sure he didn‚Äôt bleed out. A couple of his friends were there with us. So, we were trying to keep him calm,‚Äù said De Hoyos. \nNo arrests have been made and police are still searching for the shooters. \n‚ÄúI‚Äôm kind of sad that this happened in this neighborhood because I like living here. It‚Äôs a really good neighborhood. It is what it is, and we‚Äôre just going to keep an eye out and try to keep each other‚Äôs back,‚Äù said Jeremy Collins, another neighbor. \nThe resident of the home who did not want to go on camera said one of his friends who got shot in the stomach is still in critical condition.

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6309	9985	Half Of Russians Fear Syria Could Spark WW3	Half Of Russians Fear Syria Could Spark WW3 11/02/2016 \nRUSSIA TODAY Almost half of all respondents in a recent Russian opinion poll said they feared that the aggravation of relations between Russia and the West caused by the ongoing crisis in Syria could develop into a global military conflict. \nThe share of those who see the probability of World War Three in the near future as high or very high is now at 48 percent and those who appraise it as low or very low comprise 42 percent of society, the privately-owned public opinion research center Levada reported on Monday. The remaining 10 percent of respondents said they couldn‚Äôt give a simple answer to the question. \nWhen researchers asked citizens if they considered it possible that Russia and the West would eventually find a mutually acceptable solution to the crisis, 35 percent answered that this scenario was likely or very likely. Thirty-nine percent evaluate the probability of such an outcome as low or very low and 26 percent said that they couldn‚Äôt answer the question. \nJust over half ‚Äì 52 percent ‚Äì of Russians said they approve of their country‚Äôs involvement in the Syrian conflict and 26 percent said they had a negative or sharply negative attitude to this. Just under a quarter ‚Äì 23 percent ‚Äì couldn‚Äôt answer the question about their personal view on the subject. Those who thought that Russia should continue the operation and those who thought that airstrikes should be stopped were divided 49 percent against 28 percent respectively, with 24 percent finding the question too difficult to answer. \nThe level of awareness about the situation in Syria and the Russian Air Force operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists there remained fairly high. Eighteen percent said they were very closely following developments in Syria and 64 percent revealed partial familiarity with the issue. Just under a fifth ‚Äì 17 percent ‚Äì said that they were not interested in news about Syria. \nA similar poll conducted a year ago by the independent Levada Center showed that over 70 percent of Russian citizens supported the air operations against IS terrorists in Syria, and almost a half of them agreed that it was right for Russia to support the government of Syria‚Äôs democratically-elected President Bashar Assad. \nA different poll conducted earlier this month by the state-run research center VTSIOM showed that 73 percent of Russians believed that Western criticism of the air force‚Äôs counter-terrorism operation in Aleppo, Syria, was ungrounded and prejudiced. Only 6 percent said the allegations of wrongdoing on the part of the Russian military have some basis in reality. \nRussia first deployed an air force contingent in Syria in 2015, after receiving a request for military help from the Syrian government, which is currently battling Islamic State and affiliated groups. Russian war planes began launching airstrikes on terrorists in Syria on September 30, 2015. Their work has aided the Syrian military in achieving considerable success in driving jihadist forces out of the country.
6310	9987	‚ÄúMy Trampoline Addiction Hell‚Äù Buster The Boxer Tells All	0 Add Comment \nTHE STAR of a heartwarming Christmas ad which is bringing joy to countless millions, Buster the boxer was thrust into the limelight and our hearts earlier this week. \nDespite being universally loved ever since he leapt onto a trampoline on our TV screens, Buster hides a terrible struggle which still affects him to this day. \nBarking exclusively to WWN through an interpreter, Buster told us that there was more to his trampoline hijinks than meets the eye. \n‚ÄúIt‚Äôs an addiction,‚Äù the adorable dog explained, ‚Äúyou‚Äôre always chasing the buzz of your first bounce. I loved it, I still can‚Äôt enough of it. But it‚Äôs tearing my life apart‚Äù. \nSuch was Buster‚Äôs preoccupation with the trampoline, he lost interest in walks and even stopped marking his territory. \n‚ÄúThere was a time you couldn‚Äôt stop me from pissing on a tree. You name a tree in my area and I‚Äôve cocked a leg over it, but once I took to bouncing nothing else mattered, I even lost contact with my mates in the dog park. My life is being controlled by this addiction,‚Äù woofed Buster, flanked by his owners. \nDistraught, his owners contemplated removing the trampoline, but Buster would growl at any mention of it. \nCautioning all owners and dogs not to make the mistakes he has made, Buster warned that there are many gateway hobbies which can lead to an all out trampoline addiction. \n‚ÄúTennis balls, they seemed fun at the time, but I see now that my constant fetching of them was a troubling sign of things to come‚Äù.
6311	9988	Lara Trump Implies FBI Letter Politically Motivated ‚Äì ‚ÄòMy Father-In-Law Forced Their Hand‚Äô (AUDIO)	Lara Trump Implies FBI Letter Politically Motivated ‚Äì‚ÄòMy Father-In-Law Forced Their Hand‚Äô (AUDIO) By Carrie MacDonald on October 29, 2016 Subscribe \nThe latest ‚Äúrevelation‚Äù from the FBI just gets more and more curious by the hour. Now we have audio of Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump and daughter-in-law of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying she believes her father-in-law was behind the latest letter from FBI Director James Comey. Lara Trump: ‚ÄòMy Father-In-Law Forced Their Hand‚Äô \nIn an interview on WABC Radio with Rita Cosby, Lara Trump came right out and said, proudly, that she believes Donald Trump was one of the people behind this whole thing: ‚ÄúI think my father-in-law forced their hand in this. You know, he has been the one since the beginning saying that she shouldn‚Äôt be able to run for president, and I commend him on that.‚Äù \nAnyone who has been paying attention over the past 12 hours or so knows that this ‚Äúscandal‚Äù died before it even had a chance to really breathe. The conservative media has, of course, attempted to spin this into something real, given the fact that their candidate‚Äôs chances of winning are less than 10 percent. But the emails are not from Clinton nor are they from Clinton‚Äôs server. Not only that, but Comey‚Äôs motivations behind sending the letter seem more and more likely to be politically motivated. Former DOJ Official: ‚ÄòYou Don‚Äôt Do This‚Äô \nComey‚Äôs actions are unprecedented for an FBI Director. In a piece discussing that very fact, Jane Mayer wrote for The New Yorker : ‚Äú‚Ä¶ His latest action is stirring an extraordinary level of concern among legal authorities, who see it as potentially affecting the outcome of the Presidential and congressional elections. ‚ÄòYou don‚Äôt do this,‚Äô one former senior Justice Department official exclaimed. ‚ÄòIt‚Äôs aberrational. It violates decades of practice.‚Äô The reason, according to the former official, who asked not to be identified because of ongoing cases involving the department, ‚Äòis because it impugns the integrity and reputation of the candidate, even though there‚Äôs no finding by a court, or in this instance even an indictment.'‚Äù There was also the tweetstorm from former DOJ spokesperson Matthew Miller, in which he eviscerated Comey‚Äôs actions. He also wrote a more cohesive piece for the Washington Post , in which he said : ‚ÄúWith each step, Comey moved further away from department guidelines and precedents, culminating in Friday‚Äôs letter to Congress. This letter not only violated Justice rules on commenting on ongoing investigations but also flew in the face of years of precedent about how to handle sensitive cases as Election Day nears.‚Äù All of this makes one wonder ‚Äì what is Comey‚Äôs motivation here? Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama, is breaking rules of tradition left and right. And Trump‚Äôs own daughter-in-law is on record saying that she believes the Republican nominee ‚Äúforced their hand.‚Äù No matter the motivation, the ‚Äúscandal‚Äù is dead in the water, no matter how much the Republicans and the Trump campaign wish it were truly the ‚ÄúOctober surprise‚Äù they‚Äôve been waiting for ‚Ä¶ rather than another woman coming forward and accusing their nominee of sexual assault. That number stands at 12 and counting. The Clinton campaign, to their credit, is calling for complete transparency from the FBI in the matter. Listen to Lara Trump gleefully say she believes The Donald is behind this: \nFeatured Image via screenshot from YouTube video About Carrie MacDonald \nCarrie is a progressive mom and wife living in the upper Midwest. Connect
6312	9989	No Account for You	\nEd wasn‚Äôt excited about his job. He worked for a large automotive manufacturer. This is the kind of industry that might invest heavily into robots and research and development, but when it comes to managing their supply chain and accounts receivable, their IT infrastructure was frozen in amber circa 1974. \nThe pay was fine, but the work was frustrating. Things like ‚ÄúCode reviews‚Äù and ‚Äúrefactoring‚Äù were viewed as ‚Äúwastes of time‚Äù or ‚Äúdevelopers playing with toys‚Äù. Unit tests were a luxury for ‚Äúlazy‚Äù developers- good developers should just be writing code that works. If the work you‚Äôre doing isn‚Äôt directly involved in getting cars built and shipped, you shouldn‚Äôt be doing it. \nEd was looking to get out of the company, and while he kept sending out resumes, he found more excuses to get away from his desk by taking smoke breaks with Mitchell. Mitchell was a lifer- he joined the company back when pensions were a thing, and was close enough to retirement that he just needed to keep his head down and stay the course to check out with a nice nest-egg. ‚ÄúBut you,‚Äù he‚Äôd tell Ed, ‚Äúyou‚Äôve gotta get out of here. You‚Äôre young. You shouldn‚Äôt be wasting your time here.‚Äù \nAfter one of those smoke breaks, Ed returned to his desk to see Pilar waiting for him. Pilar was their summer intern, a junior in college. She mostly handled ‚Äúmanual reporting‚Äù, which was a euphemism for ‚Äúwe don‚Äôt actually have a reporting system for this data set, so we have an intern run SQL queries against production and then copy/paste the results into a spreadsheet.‚Äù Yes, there were still manual reports because none of the SBUs wanted to pay to automate them. \n‚ÄúI‚Äôve got a new report,‚Äù she said, ‚Äúand it‚Äôs on something called SCORDBE? You wouldn‚Äôt know how I get access, would you?‚Äù \nEd didn‚Äôt know. At best, he might have seen the acronym someplace on a PowerPoint during a quarterly meeting once. ‚ÄúNo, but has anyone shown you the Internal Apps Sheet?‚Äù He was referencing a spreadsheet used to track support contacts for different applications. He CTRL+F-ed to the entry for SCORDBE. ‚ÄúOh, no‚Ä¶‚Äù \nThe SCORDBE database was administered by Yev ‚ÄúTicket-Nazi‚Äù Kassem. He automatically closed any tickets for changing the database- even for production releases. Any ticket requesting access to the database, for any reason, received a simple reply: ‚ÄúNO ACCOUNT FOR YOU.‚Äù He used IP whitelists to prevent connections from unapproved devices. While it probably was good for security, that was an afterthought. Yev had a small bit of power, and he wanted to make sure that he held onto it. \nStill, that was just the database side. There was an application on top of that database. He scrolled across the spreadsheet, past the cloumns for ‚ÄúApproving Manager‚Äù, ‚ÄúSBU Contact‚Äù, ‚ÄúSBU Backup Contact‚Äù, ‚ÄúSBU Backup Bakcup Contact‚Äù and found ‚ÄúIT Development Contact‚Äù. It was Mitchell. \n‚ÄúI don‚Äôt think you‚Äôll get very far with the database,‚Äù Ed said. ‚ÄúBut maybe Mitchell can help?‚Äù \nPilar went off to visit Mitchell, and Ed got back to his regular work. A half hour later, Mitchell CCed him on an email to Pilar. ‚ÄúI‚Äôve got a solution. Just visit this URL and it‚Äôll run your query. And you can change the id=‚Ä¶ part at the end to do it for other part numbers.‚Äù \nEd didn‚Äôt think much about it until his next smoke break. ‚ÄúSo,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúhow‚Äôd you get past the Ticket-Nazi?‚Äù \nMitchell laughed. ‚ÄúI didn‚Äôt.‚Äù He paused and lit his cigarette, taking a few drags before explaining. ‚ÄúSCORDBE is about 35,000 lines of Perl written back in the 90s. Nobody ever wants to touch this code, and nobody really understands what it does. I figured there had to be some poorly escaped queries, so I just grepped until I found one. Now we can run ad-hoc queries as needed.‚Äù \nEd left the company a short time later. Mitchell, and his injection-based reporting solution, however, are still there. [Advertisement] BuildMaster integrates with an ever-growing list of tools to automate and facilitate everything from continuous integration to database change scripts to production deployments. Interested? Learn more about BuildMaster!
6313	999	Marco Rubio Ends Bid after Losing His Home State	MIAMI - Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio dropped out of the race for president Tuesday, ending his White House bid after a humbling loss in his home state to Donald Trump.\n\n"It is not God's plan that I be president in 2016 or maybe ever," the Florida senator told a crowd of supporters in Miami.\n\nWhile he didn't name Trump, Rubio warned against embracing his brand of divisive politics: "I ask the American people, do not give into the fear, do not give into the frustration," he said.\n\nRubio's decision was prompted by losses in all but three of the presidential nomination contests, but Florida's winner-take-all primary proved the most devastating. Only six years earlier, he was a tea party favorite who crushed the GOP's "establishment" candidate to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.\n\nBut the political tables turned on him in the 2016 presidential race, where he was lambasted as mainstream in a year when voters cried out for an outsider.\n\nIn the final week, he dedicated time and resources almost exclusively to the Sunshine State, urging voters to stop Trump from "hijacking" the Republican Party. He went so far as to tell his supporters in Ohio to vote for Buckeye State governor John Kasich since his chances were better to win there.\n\nDespite his intense rivalry with Trump, Rubio only indirectly criticized him during much of the campaign. He pivoted to an all-out assault on the businessman's character and ethics after a dismal Super Tuesday performance March 1, when he clinched only one of the 11 contests.\n\nIn recent weeks, the attacks deviated from policy to personal. At one point, Rubio equated Trump's small hands with his manhood. But the strategy backfired with voters and donors and Rubio later said he regretted the attacks.\n\nLike other Republicans, Rubio had pledged to support the eventual GOP nominee. But, in recent days, he expressed having second thoughts. He told reporters Saturday that the chaos and divisiveness at Trump's rallies, including the one in Chicago canceled last week, had made it harder for him to view the front-runner as a viable candidate.\n\nThe 44-year-old senator had seemed destined for the national spotlight. Time magazine placed him on its cover in early 2013, dubbing him the "Republican Savior."\n\nIn under a decade, he had gone from West Miami commissioner to state legislator to Florida House Speaker. In 2010, he challenged a sitting governor for a U.S. Senate seat and won after starting more than 50 percentage points behind in the polls, catapulted by a wave of tea party supporters.\n\nHe launched his presidential campaign at the Miami Freedom Tower, where tens of thousands of his fellow Cuban-Americans had been processed as refugees. He promised lower taxes, less regulation, tighter federal spending, modernized immigration laws, and the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare.\n\nAt the time, Rubio's friend and one-time mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, seemed his biggest hurdle to get to the Oval Office.\n\nEnter Trump. By mid-summer, he turned the Bush-Rubio rivalry into a telenovela without the sizzle. Bush dropped out after the Feb. 20 South Carolina primary.\n\nIn the Iowa caucuses, Rubio came in a better-than-expected third place, nearly beating Trump for second. He then banked on a big showing in New Hampshire but a stunningly poor debate performance - in which he frequently repeated talking points and was called "scripted" by rival Chris Christie - led to a dismal fifth place.\n\n"Our disappointment tonight is not on you. It's on me," he told supporters that night.\n\nRubio came in second in South Carolina and Nevada, but on March 1, Super Tuesday, he collected just one win in 11 contests.\n\nThe final blow came two weeks later, at home.\n\nCopyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
6314	9990	UNESCO passes anti-Israel resolution despite Tel Aviv brickbats	Press TV \nThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has approved a motion that endorses the right of the Palestinians to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and slams Israeli provocations around the holy site. \nUNESCO‚Äôs 21-member World Heritage Committee adopted the resolution in Wednesday‚Äôs secret ballot at the agency‚Äôs headquarters in Paris. \nTen countries voted for, two against, eight abstained and one was absent in the voting. \nThe resolution expresses UNESCO‚Äôs deep concerns over Israeli construction works and archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds. \nSaeb Erekat, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, welcomed the passage of the motion and accused the Tel Aviv regime of resorting to a campaign of distorting facts in a bid to legitimize its occupation of East Jerusalem al-Quds. \n‚ÄúThrough an orchestrated campaign, Israel has been using archaeological claims and distortion of facts as a way to legitimize the annexation of occupied East Jerusalem,‚Äù Erekat said. \nHe further noted that the UNESCO resolution urges ‚Äúrespecting the status quo of its religious sites, including the al-Aqsa Mosque compound that continues to be threatened by the systematic incitement and provocative actions of the Israeli government and extremist Jewish groups.‚Äù \nEarlier this month, UNESCO‚Äôs 58-member Executive Board approved a similar resolution, prompting a furious reaction from Israel as the regime suspended its ties with the agency. \nWednesday‚Äôs vote further infuriated Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing that the regime‚Äôs ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, had been recalled for consultations. \n‚ÄúWe will decide what the next steps will be,‚Äù Netanyahu said in a statement. \nElias Sanbar, Palestine‚Äôs UNESCO envoy, fired back at those upset with the resolution and warned that Israelis were ‚Äúpoliticizing religion and this is very dangerous.‚Äù \nMakram Mustafa Queisi, Jordan‚Äôs ambassador to UNESCO, also stressed that UNESCO tried to tackle the issue from a ‚Äútechnical point of view‚Äù while many parties were politicizing it. Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO Elias Sanbar (L) and Jordanian envoy Makram Mustafa Queisi address the media after an anti-Israel resolution was passed by secret ballot at the agency‚Äôs headquarters in Paris, France, October 26, 2016. (Photo by AP) \nPalestine became the 195th full member of UNESCO in October 2011, triggering a cut in Tel Aviv‚Äôs funding to the agency. \nThe occupied territories have already been the scene of increased tensions ever since the Israeli regime imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in August 2015. \nMore than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of last October.
6315	9991	Hillary Melts Down Over Weiner In Public, PICS Prove Campaign Is Imploding	Hillary Melts Down Over Weiner In Public, PICS Prove Campaign Is Imploding Posted on October 30, 2016 by Rebecca Diserio in Politics Share This \nHillary Clinton‚Äôs campaign is imploding, and it‚Äôs so bad that she was caught having a mini meltdown after her press conference as she tried to explain this new email investigation by the FBI, thanks to Anthony Weiner‚Äôs laptop. As Hillary lost it, her campaign was caught red-handed, doing dirty tricks to pictures, and you‚Äôll love just how desperate they have become as they see this election sinking like the Titanic. \nRumors are flying after Hillary Clinton responded to the latest bomb dropped on her campaign, that thousands of government emails are on Anthony Weiner‚Äôs laptop. Everyone knows Hillary should have been indicted before, and she had a meltdown of sorts when Kristen Welker of Fox News asked, ‚ÄúAre you worried this could sink your campaign, Secretary Clinton?‚Äù \nWhile Hillary was walking away from the short press conference after the Weiner email story broke, she stopped and threw her head back and let out a creepy maniacal laugh . Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin found it really weird, saying it was like Hillary had lost it. She described Hillary ‚Äústopping and throwing her head back and laughing, it was really odd.‚Äù "Are you worried this could sink your campaign, Secretary Clinton," a reporter shouts as HRC walks out. Clinton only lets out a big laugh. \n‚Äî Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) October 28, 2016 \nHowever, Hillary Clinton was not really laughing. That was a public meltdown, and she is pissed off that an idiot like Anthony Weiner just cost her this election. It‚Äôs so bad that the Clinton campaign was caught photoshopping the crowd at a recent Ohio rally, where Bill Clinton spoke. Bill Clinton rally Oct. 29th, red arrow shows a man (left) who was duplicated in photoshopped pic put out by Clinton campaign, indicated with red circles (right) \nThen, if all of that isn‚Äôt bad enough, the Chicago Tribune, one of the most liberal papers in the country, had this headline yesterday: ‚Äú Democrats Should Ask Hillary To Step Down ,‚Äù which was written by John Kass who was speaking from Hillary‚Äôs real home state of Illinois. \n‚ÄúFBI director James Comey ‚Äòs announcement about the renewed Clinton email investigation is the bombshell in the presidential campaign. That he announced this so close to Election Day should tell every thinking person that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious .‚Äù [via Chicago Tribune ] \nIf we are agreeing with the Chicago Tribune, you know what happened on Friday with James Comey and the FBI is so devastating that this election is over for Hillary. However, that doesn‚Äôt mean we can let up and sigh with relief just yet. \nHowever, we can be extremely optimistic that, after eight years and two elections that caused utter destruction for our country, we have an extremely good chance that Americans will reject Hillary and her criminal cabal. America was saved by Anthony Weiner, and it doesn‚Äôt get any stranger than that.
6316	9992	Spirit to thank veterans at annual Veterans Day Parade	‚Äπ ‚Ä∫ Arnaldo Rodgers is a trained and educated Psychologist. He has worked as a community organizer and activist. Spirit to thank veterans at annual Veterans Day Parade By Arnaldo Rodgers on November 2, 2016 Veterans Day \nBy spiritaero.com \nSpirit AeroSystems is proud to sponsor the annual Spirit AeroSystems Veterans Day Parade scheduled Saturday, Nov. 5, in downtown Wichita. Spirit employees and their families will take part in the parade to show appreciation and support for the men and women who have served the United States and protected freedom around the globe. \nThe parade is scheduled at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, in downtown Wichita. The parade will begin near 11 th and Main Street and conclude with a celebration remembrance event at WaterWalk. \nEmployees and the general public are invited to attend the festivities, which are presented in partnership with USD259 JROTC. This year, the parade commemorates the National Defense Act of 1916. \nRead the Full Article at www.spiritaero.com >>>> Related Posts: No Related Posts The views expressed herein are the views of the author exclusively and not necessarily the views of VNN, VNN authors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors, partners, technicians or the Veterans Today Network and its assigns. Notices Posted by Arnaldo Rodgers on November 2, 2016, With 0 Reads, Filed under Veterans . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry FaceBook Comments \nYou must be logged in to post a comment Login WHAT'S HOT
6317	9995	Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Issues Dire Warning to Americans : Democrats May Try and HACK the Election ‚Äì TruthFeed	Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Issues Dire Warning to Americans : Democrats May Try and HACK the Election Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Issues Dire Warning to Americans : Democrats May Try and HACK the Election Breaking News By Amy Moreno November 4, 2016 \nHacker Guccifer 2.0 issued a dire election warning to American voters. \nAccording to Guccifer 2.0 the software used by FEC networks may be vulnerable to fraud. \n‚Äî GUCCIFER 2.0 (@GUCCIFER_2) November 4, 2016 \nFrom Guccifer 2.0: I‚Äôd like to warn you that the Democrats may rig the elections on November 8. This may be possible because of the software installed in the FEC networks by the large IT companies. \nAs I‚Äôve already said, their software is of poor quality, with many holes and vulnerabilities. I have registered in the FEC electronic system as an independent election observer; so I will monitor that the elections are held honestly. \nI also call on other hackers to join me, monitor the elections from inside and inform the U.S. society about the facts of electoral fraud. I'll be an independent observer at the U.S. #Elections2016 I call on other hackers to monitor the elections from inside the system \n‚Äî GUCCIFER 2.0 (@GUCCIFER_2) November 4, 2016 This is a movement ‚Äì we are the political OUTSIDERS fighting against the FAILED GLOBAL ESTABLISHMENT! Join the resistance and help us fight to put America First! Amy Moreno is a Published Author , Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can follow her on Twitter here and Facebook here . Support the Trump Movement and help us fight Liberal Media Bias. Please LIKE and SHARE this story on Facebook or Twitter.
6318	9998	The Israeli Trumpess	WHAT WILL Donald Trump do if he loses the elections in a week and a half from now, as most polls indicate? \nHe has already declared that he will recognize the results -- but only if he wins. \nThat sounds like a joke. But it is far from being a joke. \nTrump has already announced that the election is rigged. The dead are voting (and all the dead vote for Hillary Clinton). The polling station committees are corrupt. The polling machines forge the results. \nNo, that is not a joke. Not at all. - Advertisement - \nTHIS IS not a joke, because Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, who belong to the lower strata of the white population, which the white elite used to call "white trash." In more polite language they are called "blue collar workers," meaning manual workers, unlike the "white collar workers" who occupy the offices. \nIf the tens of millions of blue collar voters refuse to recognize the election results, American democracy will be in danger. The United States may become a banana republic, like some of its southern neighbors, which have never enjoyed a stable democracy. \nThis problem exists in all modern nation-states with a sizable national minority. The lowest strata of the ruling people hates the minority. Members of the minority push them out of the lower jobs. And more importantly: the lower strata of the ruling majority have nothing to be proud of except for their belonging to the ruling people. \nThe German unemployed voted for Adolf Hitler, who promoted them to the "Herrenvolk" (master people) and the Aryan race. They gave him power, and Germany was razed to the ground. \nTHE ONE and only Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is a bad system, but that all the other systems tried were worse. - Advertisement - \nAs far as democracy is concerned, the United States was a model for the world. Already in its early days it attracted freedom-lovers everywhere. Almost 200 years ago, the French thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote a glowing report about the "Democratie en Amerique." \nMy generation grew up in admiration of American democracy. We saw European democracy breaking down and sinking into the morass of fascism. We admired this young America, which saved Europe in two world wars, out of sheer idealism. The democratic America vanquished German Nazism and Japanese militarism, and later Soviet Bolshevism. \nOur childish attitude gave way to a more mature view. We learned about the genocide of the native Americans and about slavery. We saw how America is seized from time to time by an attack of craziness, such as the witch hunt of Salem and the era of Joe McCarthy, who discovered a Communist under every bed. \nBut we also saw Martin Luther King, we saw the first black President, and now we are probably about to see the first female President. All because of this miracle: American democracy.

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